Daily Archives: December 1, 2017

As part of a plan to overhaul its 500-acre campus in Redmond, Washington State, Microsoft will start a multi-year project in 2018 to create 18 new buildings, alongside new public spaces, transportation investments and sports fields. According to a report on The Verge, the updated campus will house 47,000 Microsoft employees that currently work at…

After a successful trial in the Philippines, Twitter is rolling out its data-friendly “Lite” Android version in 24 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Available in Google Play Store, Twitter “Lite” (under 3MB size) loads quickly on 2G and 3G networks and offers offline support in case users temporarily lose…

With over billion mobiles, 325 million broadband connections and 306 million new bank accounts, India has become a case study in digital financial inclusion, said Communications Minister Manoj Sinha on Thursday. “India is a leading case study of commitment to digital transformation and financial inclusion. The 500-million mobile connections in rural areas offers an opportunity…

Vodafone India said that it has turned Noida’s first bus shelter at Sector 18 into a free WiFi hotspot. This WiFi bus shelter will allow customers to get access to complimentary WiFi for 20 minutes per day and this can be availed by users of any telecom networks. This is the third Vodafone free wifi…

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it has demonstrated the fifth-generation network on a high-speed train traveling over 100 kmph under a joint project with Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI. The two companies, which have been rolling out joint projects in the field since 2015, said they successfully observed data transmission speed of 1.7 Gbps in…

The Enforcement Directorate is searching the places belonging to the relatives of Karti Chidambaram, the son of former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, across Chennai and Kolkata, in connection with the alleged irregularities in the Aircel-Maxis and INX Media cases. In the INX Media case, alleged irregularities in the grant of Foreign…

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday said India ranks first in the world in terms of mobile broadband penetration, consuming more mobile broadband data than users in the US and China. “Just one year back, India was ranked 150th in the world for mobile broadband. Now it is number one, after the launch of…

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani Friday hit back at Bharti’s Sunil Mittal for blaming his telecom venture Jio for the industry’s losses, saying businesses must stop looking at regulators and governments to guarantee their profits. Calling Mittal a “friend”, he said profits and losses are risks businesses take and it is more important to find out if…

Xiaomi on Thursday launched a new smartphone, Redmi 5A, in India. Touted as ‘desh ka smartphone’, it is available in two variants – 2GB of RAM and 16GB built-in storage and 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage. The two models are priced at Rs 4,999 (for the first five million units, post which it will…